Now thats a waste: Oceana planes in Super Bowl flyover
 

How is it a waste? Also this is done all the time for many sporting events in the US.

Yeah, I don't get it, either. ...?

Good training for the air crews. It's a pretty good enlistment tool as well.

Exactly. :up:

They do this all the time, its almost standard procedure.

Edit: The planes at the Superbowl were probably already on CAP anyways lest we forget The Sum of All Fears...

I would bet the cost of flying those planes over is a lot less than the cost of buying a 30 second commercial spot during the Superbowl.

I'm not sure, but I think the cost of BUILDING those planes is probably less than a 30 second SuperBowl spot.

moot point as the planes were not purpose built for super bowl fly overs.;)

But they will get repeated use out of the plane. ;)

A Superbowl ad might get replayed for a few months (or not at all) while that plane will be in service for 30 years.

Unless it's an MRA4 :nope:

You know what? I pay for that hardware and I want to see it in action! :yeah: I think it is cool to see the jets. It is special to the pilots and to the crowd. Let's look at it this way. I got the honor to be at the Armed Services Womens Memorial opening and dedication in Washington DC. It being a womens memorial women pilots flew over in Army helicopters to commemorate the day. It was just very cool for those attending and the women pilots who participated. Look at it this way, Russia has military parades. Missles on the street and fly overs. We get airshows and a few jets at the game. :DL

I wouldn't be surprised; Superbowl ad time is crazy expensive.

Was the new Nimrod even accepted in to service? I thought it was just a prototype aircraft. :hmmm:

Stupid to just break her up, they should keep here in a hanger just in case something changes or to have an aircraft to look at when/if they build a successor to the Nimrod.

No worries the US will soon have some surplus P-3 Orions for sale, you folks over the pond can buy those. ;)

The Japanese might have some surplus Orions as well as their Kawasaki P-1 seem to be coming along nicely.

I don't see anything wrong with this.

Who knows? Maybe the attack at Pearl Harbor was simply meant to be a flyover to impress us with their military and some crazed gung ho pilot just lost it and dropped his bomb.

Some hate the military so much they resent seeing a flyover, but to me it is a good thing, not to mention as this has already been posted good training for those involved and an event they will recall late in their lives as an honorable one.

Hey, I got a new cap!!